Carrie Fisher Quotes
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A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.
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Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.
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Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.
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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
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Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.
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I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.
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Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.
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I have a second dog, too, mainly for security.
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Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.
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I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.
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I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'
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No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
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If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.
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He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.
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The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.
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I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
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I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.
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My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.
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It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.
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I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.
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Actually, social drug-taking went kind of low-key for a couple of years. Probably because of AIDS, people got very conscious of their health. But it seems to be making a comeback. Just the other night I was at a party where people kept disappearing into the bathroom every few minutes. I'm glad I did all that in my 20s and that I'm done with it. And that I wrote about it in Postcards from the Edge.
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I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.
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I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. ... But I doubt.
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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.